Sara Jenkins' recipe for pasta carbonara calls for 4 cups cheese to 1 pound pasta. Can you verify that this is correct?

Posted by: Barbara Gorman
April 9, 2016

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Lindsay-Jean H.April 11, 2016

Good question -- Sara double-checked her notes and it should be 1 cup of each type of cheese—the recipe has been updated to reflect this!

BerryBabyApril 10, 2016

That is quite a bit of cheese. The Carbonara recipe that I use calls for a cup of cheese and it turns out perfect every time.

Susan W.April 10, 2016

That's a little nutty. There are several questions in the recipe comment section about the cheese that have gone unanswered so far.

Here is a version that I like:
http://www.seriouseats...

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